Pregnant and Dating: When Taco Tuesday Leads to a Baby

How do single pregnant girls get guys? Turns out, pretty easily.

\n"I went to Taco Tuesday, unfortunately there was tequila involved, and then I'm pregnant."

It's far from a fairytale, but this is how 28-year-old Orange County, Calif. nail technician Megan Aballi (top, far right) introduces herself to viewers on the new We reality show, Pregnant and Dating (tagline: "Single, Sexy, Taking Control"). Her story sounds like an urban legend gabbed about over brunch, or the plot of Knocked Up/The Backup Plan, but Megan really did find herself pregnant after too much tequila with Anthony, a guy her dad's age whom she proceeded to date for two months.

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However as Megan tells her mom in a tearful scene on the show premiering May 31, "he was thinking that I would have an abortion."

"I'm 28, I'm successful, I live by myself, I make enough money. [Abortion] wasn't an option for me," Megan told Cosmopolitan.com in a phone chat this week. "I knew I wanted to keep the baby, but I also knew he was not the guy for me."

Spoiler: Megan drops Anthony, which leads to the actual pregnant dating. At this point there is indeed a reality show for literally every extreme hoarder/duck hunter/pawn shop owner/child beauty queen known to man. But nevertheless, Pregnant and Dating, which also documents pregnant singletons Kiesha, a music producer, Shana, a model, Melissa, a celeb stylist, and Rachel, a TV producer, manages to be uniquely provocative.

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A random poll of friends confirms that dating while pregnant may be the modern-day Scarlet Letter. When I Gchatted a young mom about the show, she typed back one word: "Gross." "If I saw an eight month pregnant person on a date, I'd think, 'Get your shit together,'" said another friend. Even the sweetest person I polled wondered aloud, "If single people can't even get guys, how do pregnant girls get guys?"

Turns out, fairly easily. "Men flirt with me way more with me now that I'm pregnant," Megan says on the show. "I think men find it really attractive for whatever reason," she added to us. "Maybe because they think pregnant girls are taken?" (Are pregnant bellies the flirt-provoking equivalent of wedding rings on married guys? Discuss.)

Megan never even considered a nine-month dating hiatus, saying: "There's no reason not to date. If you look good and you feel good, why not?"

"It was exciting to be able to go on dates and be called pretty even with a huge stomach," she gushed. Megan is cryptic about the upcoming dates on the show, but doesn't she look pretty enamored with this guy, based on the below photo evidence?

While she heard from friends that pregnant sex is "amazing," Megan tells us she never found out on her own. "Maybe one day when I get married, I will know," she said. "My friends had some pretty funny stories…when you're huge, you have to lay in certain positions, and you have a higher sex drive with the hormones. But at the end, a lot of husbands wanted to get physical and it was the last thing the wives wanted to do."

These stories actually made Megan feel somewhat lucky to be single and pregnant before giving birth to her daughter, Charlie, last month. "I went to yoga every single night the whole way through. I didn't have a guy to take care of or worry about. If I could rewind and do it all over again, I would do it exact same away," she said. "Being single and pregnant isn't easy, but it's also very empowering. It feels really good to know that I can do it myself."

Megan has the support of her family, and Anthony visits Charlie once a week. Next up: New Motherhood and Dating? She can't spoil the outcome, but haters be damned, Megan hints that she may still be with a "great guy" she met on the show.

Check out a sneak peek here.

What do you think about Pregnant and Dating—totally fine or completely wrong? Holler at us in the comments.